Justice Black's role in the right to appointed counsel cases is unique. What best describes his role?
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Justice Black's role in the right to appointed counsel cases is unique. What best describes his role?
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He wrote the dissent in Betts (1942), and he again expressed his views in Gideon (1963) as the author of the majority opinion | |
Justice Black had a ghost writer in all the opinions he issued on the topic of the right to counsel | |
His opinion in Betts (1942) as the author of the majority opinion were exactly the same 20 years later when he again expressed his views in Gideon (1963) | |
He wrote the majority opinion in Betts (1942), and he again expressed his views in Gideon (1963) as the author of the dissent |
Douglas v. California (1963) (right to counsel on appeal) relies heavily on the logic of a precedent case. This precedent case was about:
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the right of an indigent defendant to a free psychiatric evaluation, if the defendant's sanity is an issue in the case | |
the right of an indigent defendant to a free business suit so he does not need to appear before the jury in a prison uniform | |
the right of an indigent defendant to a free transcript of the trial proceedings | |
the right of an indigent defendant to free access to law books |
Has the Supreme Court required that poor people be given appointed counsel in all criminal cases? If not, what best describes the rule?
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The right to appointed counsel applies in federal criminal cases but not in state criminal cases | |
The right to appointed counsel applies in felony criminal cases, not misdemeanor and traffic criminal cases | |
The right to appointed counsel applies in all criminal cases where the defendant will serve jail time, or is vulnerable to incarceration | |
The right to appointed counsel applies in all criminal cases |